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HPE wants to bring modern storage to SMBs with new entry-level arrays
Thanks to the growing competition in the storage market, small and midsized companies have more arrays to choose from than ever. The latest vendor to turn its attention towards this segment is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is launching two entry-level systems that provide many of the same features included in its more expensive gear. The ...
Khosla leads $61M round into fast-growing data protection startup Rubrik
Data protection is emerging as a key focus area for Silicon Valley’s top investors. Khosla Ventures joined the fray today by leading a $61 million funding round into backup startup Rubrik Inc. with help from existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and a number of prominent tech executives. The reason why the startup is ...
Industrial giant Honeywell reportedly looking to buy JDA Software for $3BN
Honeywell International Inc. is in the midst of a major strategic shift. The industrial giant is scaling back operations in historically core markets such as aerospace and chemicals while aggressively expanding its IT business, an effort that is now reportedly set to kick into high gear. An anonymous insider told the Wall Street Journal over ...
IBM and Workday ink 7-year cloud deal
Less than two weeks after landing a long-term professional services agreement with Vodafone Group plc, IBM Corp. is marking another major customer win. The vendor announced this morning that it has been entrusted by Workday Inc. to host its application development and testing environment for the next seven years. Big Blue didn’t share the financial ...
What you missed in Big Data: Real-time insights
The analytics ecosystem is constantly churning out new products and services designed to help companies make better use of their data. Last week saw Amazon Inc. join the fray by launching Kinesis Analytics, a managed stream processing engine for extracting insights from fast-moving information such as sensory transmissions and social media interactions. The service sets itself ...
What you missed in Cloud: Price cuts and APIs
The industry’s top cloud providers regularly cut their infrastructure rates in a bid to stay ahead of the competition. Last week, Google set the pace by announcing a massive 33 percent reduction in the price its so-called Preemptive VMs, which are geared towards low-priority workloads that don’t need to run continuously for an extended period ...
Oracle takes on LinkedIn and Salesforce with new B2B data marketplace
Oracle Corp. is continuing to expand its public cloud. Three weeks after buying NetSuite Inc. for $9.3 billion to gain a bigger presence in the software-as-a-service space, the vendor is launching a new managed data exchange where marketers can buy information about business prospects. The bulk of Oracle’s record cache is sourced from Datalogix, Bluekai ...
AWS now lets companies use on-premise crypto gear to protect their workloads
Though the CIA has deemed Amazon Inc.’s cloud safe enough to run sensitive governmental workloads, some companies still struggle to meet their compliance requirements using the built-in security functionality. To amend the situation, the vendor is rolling out a new encryption feature that makes it possible to harness external cryptographic hardware. More specifically, the addition ...
Accolade raises $70M to help companies improve their healthcare plans
There are few professional services startups out there that have managed to get investors as excited as Accolade Inc. The Seattle-based outfit raised a hefty $70 million in funding today from a group of high-profile backers led by Andreessen Horowitz to fuel the growth of its healthcare consulting operations. Accolade employs several hundred medical professionals, ...
Data scientists can now directly access IBM Watson in R
IBM Corp.’s push to widen the adoption of Watson is not a solo effort. The company is actively recruiting the help of partners like Ohio’s Columbus Collaboratory LLC, which launched a new open-source imitative today that aims to make the analytics platform more easily accessible. Dubbed CognizeR, the project provides a library for the R ...